Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data for $10 million
Alphabet's Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for $10 million, saying it plans to use the data for product development and training its AI models.
Abubakar Ibrahim
Aug 18·1 min read
Alphabet’s Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for $10 million, saying it plans to use the data for product development and training its AI models.
- The acquired data includes Spirit Airlines’ employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, spreadsheets, and calendars, as well as marketing, productivity, and operations data.
- The data will be de-identified before the sale is complete, containing no customer information or personally identifiable information.
- A U.S. bankruptcy judge will consider approving the data sale at a Wednesday court hearing.
- Spirit also received a $7.5 million bid from Mercor, an AI data company.
- Spirit is selling off assets in bankruptcy after shutting down its business in May due to high debt and high fuel costs.